Bio-Dome

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Bio-Dome is a 1996 movie starring Pauly Shore and Stephen Baldwin and directed by Jason Bloom. The story centers on two men named Bud (Shore) and Doyle (Baldwin) and their experience inside a "bio-dome", a form of a closed ecological system. Shore won a Golden Raspberry Award as worst actor for his performance in the 1996 Golden Raspberry Awards.

Bizarrely, the film has a cult following, and even more bizarrely, not from Shore's on-screen antics as much as from the mannerisms of his co-star, Baldwin.^{[citation needed]} Stephen Baldwin's near perfect rendition of a late '90's unemployed Californian slacker has become famous.^{[citation needed]} It has haunted Baldwin's career since then, but in a positive way as he retains popularity with younger fans for it.^{[citation needed]}

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Bio-Dome is mentioned in the "Weird Al" Yankovic song "Albuquerque", when Al's list of complaints about his plane trip includes "And the in-flight movie was Bio-Dome with Pauly Shore" (shortly before the plane explodes). [1]
Pop superstar Kylie Minogue has said that appearing in Bio-Dome was the worst decision of her professional career. Also, she reported that her father would never let her live down being in the film and that based on his review of it she has never seen the final product.^{[citation needed]}
This film is based upon the Biosphere 2, a scientific project that began operation in 1991 in the Arizona desert.
Shore claims he dated Kylie Minogue for six months in 1997 and claims he hasn’t found anyone like her since. [2]
The first song of the 1995 album Firme by the ska/punk band Voodoo Glow Skulls is playing in the background when the main characters in the film are driving through the desert. This album, in its turn, opens with a sequence taken from the cult movie Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke.
In a Family Guy episode "Screwed the Pooch", Brian the Dog admitted in court that he had rented out Bio-Dome and Son in Law, both films starring Shore; at this point, various people in the courtroom collectively gasp, one muttering: "He's terrible."
In "The Cryonic Woman" episode of Futurama, Pauly Shore is cryogenically frozen (in a cryo-tank next to Weird Al Yankovic), and on awakening, remarks, about Bio-dome, and in reply to Fry's statement "You sure caused trouble in that bubble": "If it rhymes, I can cause trouble in it."
Jack Black and Kyle Gass have a brief appearance in the film while playing in their band Tenacious D.